The RoanokeSlant

This file is a personal journal of commentary of examples of the Roanoke Times and Liberal Media Slant...... lbhagen@aol.com .......The Google Cookie Notice is required by the EU! So much for US Sovereignty!

Monday, March 31, 2014

McAuliffe Pushing Obamacare Expansion

GLADE HILL, VA - Today,
Governor McAuliffe continued his political campaign tour across the Commonwealth
trying to gain support for his administration's number one priority and sole
focus since taking office: expanding Obamacare in Virginia.

"I'm not surprised Governor McAuliffe
is out on the campaign trail again. A Quinnipiac University poll released on
Wednesday showed only 4% of Virginian's agree with McAuliffe that Medicaid
expansion is a top priority. I think he's starting to realize he's out on his
own tree limb here and now he's trying to pull everyone else out there with
him.

"Virginia's current Medicaid program is in desperate need of
reforms to improve health outcomes and make the program more fiscally
sustainable. Obamacare is a train wreck and more than half of Virginian's
oppose the law. Why would we just go along with expansion without asking any
questions, without making any reforms, and without assurances the federal
government will pay their share? This proposal has enormous fiscal
ramifications for Virginia, for our core programs like education and public
safety, and for taxpayers. It's not something I take lightly and I think the
Governor should recognize this.

"My position on Obamacare is clear. I believe reforms should
come first and I am skeptical of Washington's ability and willingness to pay its
share of the cost. I believe the Medicaid Innovation and Reform Commission, on
which I serve, is the right vehicle for these reforms.

"It's time for Governor McAuliffe to drop his demands for
Obamacare expansion and stop using our teachers, students, and local governments
as bargaining chips. It is critical the General Assembly pass a clean budget as
soon as possible. Then, if the Governor would like to call a special session
for Obamacare expansion, I'll gladly debate the issue on its own merits.

Why is Obama mocking Russia and Putin, goading him into additional
annexation of Ukraine
territory and people?

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Russia weak?They
have enough multi-warhead H-Bombs mounted on intercontinental missiles that can
totally and completely destroy the United States should they chose to
do so! Does that sound weak to you?

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Latest US intel: More indications than ever Russia could invade Ukraine

Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio,
claimed Thursday that the number could be as high as 80,000. It is believed
that an additional 50,000 troops may have flooded the region in the last few
days.Does 5 Divisions of Combat Troops look weak to you?-

Does any of this sound like Russia and Putin are acting out of
weakness?

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The Obama response: You
Russians can’t come to our G-7/8 Meeting and we’re going to “do something mean”
to the top Russian officials we think are supporting Putin.And we’re also giving the Ukrainian military MRE’s
(meals ready to eat)! Really?You can’t
make this stuff up!

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And now we’re going to send
money to Ukraine to help them buy Russian fuel from Russia at exorbitant increased prices;
and when we’ve paid for that we’re going to pay Russia millions more to ride on
their rockets to the space platform. And
Obama is then going to send US
gas and oil from the Fracking being done on private lands in defiance of Obama’s
EPA thugs.How the hell did we get into
this situation?Just how much Hope and
Change can we stand?

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Clearly Obama is Delusional And
Dysfunctional and has no idea what to say or do?So then he said he’s worried about an “A-Bomb
going off in Manhattan!That should make Chuck Schumer and all the
other NY Democrats cringe and ask “are you safer now than you were 5 years ago”?

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It is difficult to
comprehend how far we have fallen in such a short time!

But the Pravda Press just keeps singing "Hail to the Chief" all day every day!

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A long and laborious and tedious article that weaves a web of confusion and
false premises and false and limited alternatives.
-Premise: The County must belong to
ICLEI in order to be a good steward of the environment.Fact: The County has a
responsibility to be a good steward of the environment totally independent of
any remote organization be it part of the UN or not.
-Premise: One has to subscribe to the
Gore-Mann man-made global warming AGW hypothesis in order to be a good steward
of the environment and do good things for sustainability.Fact: Being a force for
sustainability is totally independent of buying into the AGW hypothesis.
Sustainability is an important effort to minimize our impact on the earth,
improve the environment and provide a healthy place for our people and if done
correctly can be very cost effective.
-Premise: Leaving membership in the
ICLEI is a statement of rejection of being good stewards of our environment.Fact: Most municipalities and most
people don’t belong to the ICLEI and don’t even know what the organization is.
Stopping membership in ICLEI may well improve RoanokeCounty’s
environmental stewardship by stopping nonproductive discussions and wasted time
and instead focusing on the core elements of implementing good sustainability
standards and actions and measurements.
-Premise: The RoanokeCounty
supervisors must choose between membership in the ICLEI or being labeled not
good supervisors (perhaps not even good persons).Fact: A good supervisor does the
right things for the right reasons for the people he/she represents. Membership
in the ICLEI is immaterial to good governance and good sustainability outcomes
in RoanokeCounty and should not be a litmus test
for anything.
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Observations by a nonresident admirer of RoanokeCounty.
LB Hagen, Scruggs Va.
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What Catastrophe? MIT’s Richard Lindzen, the unalarmed climate scientist http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/articles/what-catastrophe_773268.html
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Monday, March 24, 2014

Yet Another ObamaCare ‘1984’ Lie

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Roanoke Times, 3-24-2014, Pg
1,6: AP: Birth control mandate in court

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“The Obama administration
and its opponents are renewing the Supreme Court battle over President Barack
Obama’s health care law in a case that pits the religious rights of employers
against the rights of women to the birth control of their choice.”

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“against the rights of women to the birth control of
their choice”

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No! That's not it!Women had the birth control of their choice last
year, they have it this year and they will have it next year; totally
independent of this court case.

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Nothing in this case prevents women from the birth
control of their choice!

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The court battle is over WHO WILL PAY for their birth
control and what rights do those paying citizens have!

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It appears that the “’right’
to birth control” part of this comes from a significant stretch of the “pursuit
of happiness” clause.If that’s the
case, there are a lot of things the taxpayers could buy for me in my “pursuit
of and ‘right’ to happiness”!-

AARP did a survey – guys
want Viagra paid for by Medicare and ObamaCare.
It appears birthcontrol pills are $10 a month and Viagra is $30 per pill -- talk about your gender inequality! When does that get to the Supreme Court?-

“President Obama and I view
Article 5 of the NATO Treaty as an absolutely solemn commitment which we will
honor,” Biden said in an appearance with Estonian President Toomas Hendrik
Ilves

“But having to deliver the message at all is a
measure of how uncertain Eastern Europe remains as it confronts an expansionist
Russia
- and how uncertain many leaders here are of the Obama administration’s
intentions to help.”

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Those who pound their swords into plows
will plow for those who didn’t!-

The most amazing Obama position during this crisis is refusal to send military
supplies to Ukraine
because it would further encourage Putin-Russia to invade further!Really?Let’s not give the police any
more guns because it will cause the bad guys to kill more cops!This is the hope and change we can believe
in?Didn’t Obama just direct that all our A10 Warthog Tank Killer planes to be
deactivated?--“Poland easing regulations
to allow faster development of its shale gas to future European pipelines that
would lessen reliance on Russia’s.Beyond reiterating a previous pledge to
expand U.S.
liquefied natural gas exports to the region, Biden offered ideas, future
technical support and encouragement.”--Central European nations appeal to Congress for faster exports of US natural gashttp://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/08/central-european-nations-appeal-to-congress-for-faster-exports-us-natural-gas/--And now we’re talking about sending fossil
fuels to Eastern European Countries?Is Obama not shutting down fossil fuel power plans as fast as he can?Are he and his minions not fighting fracking
as much as they can?Why isn’t he sending solar panels and windmills?-

-Did not John Kerry declare that Fossil-Fuel Global Warming AGW is the most imminent
WMD in the world?Did Harry Reid’s
minions in the Senate not spend a day lamenting Man-made Global Warming
AGW?These are our national leaders?--And what an appropriate time to reflect
on Obama’s mocking of Romney during the debates for his distrust of Russia and
Putin
Click to view who is the naïve and wrong-headed candidate:
Romney and Obama on Russia during the 2012 Presidential Debatehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y9oVC-mGW8--
Obama’s Flexibility With Putin’s Russia Comes Home To Roosthttp://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/03/obamas-flexibility-with-putins-russia.html
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Obama The GM CEO Keeps Abusing Others

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Roanoke Times, 3-19-2014, Pg 1, 8: Recall crisis swallowing
GM

GM tries to tackle mounting recall crisisThe automotive giant appointed a new safety chief while the
CEO apologized for lives lost.--Feds reportedly failed to investigate reports of GM vehicle shutdownshttp://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/03/09/feds-reportedly-failed-to-investigate-reports-gm-vehicle-shutdowns/?intcmp=latestnews--Obama has used government assets to spy-upon and harass his
so called political enemies including conservative persons and groups.He has also used and is using government assets to harass
his so called economic enemies including the fossil fuel industry, Boeing,
Right-to-Work and the non-GM auto industry.-Obama set his NTSB upon Toyota
as if the Japanese had launched another Pearl Harbor.Much of this attack upon Toyota was to the direct advantage of GM. This effort was blunted when Toyota produced “black box” data that clearly
demonstrated that for most run-away cars the driver was on the gas-pedal and
NOT on the brake.Not quite as enlightening
as Monica’s dress – but pretty close.-Now we find out that Obama has had his minions in the NTSB
look the other way and did not monitor or investigate nor demand massive
recalls or levy massive fines due to serious GM safety issues;They were much too busy following Toyota around!Even our local folks at the RT were eager to telegraph and
hype the Obama propaganda.http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/03/roanoke-times-hiding-toyota-problem.html-http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/02/obamas-government-motors-gm-propaganda.html-
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And let us reflect on Obama’s
“secret” conversation with Russia’s
President:

After I’m elected I’ll have more “flexibility”

Published on Mar 27, 2012
On Monday while President Obama was taking part in a global nuclear security
summit in South Korea,
he was caught on tape asking for Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for
"space." "This is my last election. After my election I have
more flexibility," Obama implored. Obama assured the departing Russian
President he will have the "flexibility" required to deal with
missile defense issues after the 2012 presidential election

Monday, March 17, 2014

Malaysia Airline Disappearance A Blessing For Obama

Obama the Blessed One!Praise be to Allah!The media, all the media, totally committed
24/7 for a week on “garbage” speculation about the missing airliner with no
light at all left to shine on Obama’s laundry list of issues, problems and
malfeasance and broken promises.

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Never in history has there
been so much heat with so little light!

Let’s interview yet another
person who has no knowledge of any of the facts of the situation.Let’s ask the audience to Tweet-in what they
think happened.

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Has there ever been such
disregard and insensitivity to over 200 victims and their families?

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RT, Pg 1, Crimea
likely to ask to be annexed!

Asked to be annexed?This was a military invasion by a Russian
Division – STUPID!What is the matter
with you people?

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In addition to the invasion
of Crimea, Russia has deployed paratroopers
and ground assault troops into Eastern-Ukraine and taken over energy
facilities.

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Is there no length the
Pravda Media will go to prop-up and cover-up for Obama?

FOIA Laws Are A Farce

Virginia has FOIA
laws – what we need is compliance with those laws.There is no
better example of giving the FOIA laws the “bird” than what UVA is doing
relative to spending hundreds of thousands of tax-payer money trying to avoid shining
some sunlight onto the so called “research” that Michael Mann was doing, at
tax-payer expense, at UVA.

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We don’t need more laws – we
need Judges that have the intestinal fortitude to tell UVA to comply with the
law and open Michael Mann’s files so that the public who paid for this data can
see the data.

Just Like Pelosi said: you
have to pass it, to know what’s in it!

My Doctor refers to that analogy
as a stool sample.

Which is also a good analogy
for what UVA is doing with your taxes!

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3-17-2014, Pg 6: Study:
Government slow with disclosures

This administration’s
efforts to be open were at the worst since Obama began his first term.

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Did not Obama wax eloquent about how he was going to improve
government?

Obama’s Open and Transparent Commitment to America Mr. President YOU LIE!!Click to view
the video:

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Obama And ObamaCare At Comedy Show

Obama, the most incompetent
and intrusive president in history takes his signature program that has become the
example of big government malfeasance and incompetence to a TV comedy show.

And the Roanoke Times and
the liberal media trying to spin this into good news!

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Obama has now even “delayed”
the “mandate” until after the Hillary election.

Remember the mandate – that was
so important that it went up to the SCOTUS to declare it is a “tax”, and Obama
stating that it couldn’t be disturbed not even for a government shut-down.

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The number of people who
have lost their insurance is a multiple of the new “enrollees” and many of the new
“enrollees” had insurance but are now on ObamaCare with Taxpayer subsidies and
most ObamaCare insurance costs more that coverage did before ObamaCare.How
is all this a good thing?

Monday, March 10, 2014

Roanoke Times: Putin In Crimea Bush's Fault

-Roanoke Times, 3-10-2014, VA Pg 4: HUGE Cartoon blaming "Putin in Crimea" as Bush's Fault.-If only we hadn't invaded Iraq with multiple resolutions of the United Nations, declaration of invasion by Congress and a coalition of many nations "of the willing" to topple Saddam's Regime -- if only we hadn't done that -- Putin wouldn't have a pretext to invade Ukraine-Crimea and annex it into Russia and Obama would have talked him out of there by now! Damn that Bush! Will Obama ever be able to clean up his messes?-Is there any task that the Roanoke Times and the Pravda Press won't do to help defend and cover-up Obama's short-falls and malfeasance and try to make him look like a blameless bystander?-Redirecting this mess back to George Bush is beyond the pale -- but we'll do anything for Barack! After all this is all about: Hope and Change!--

“Condoleezza Rice lacks
“moral authority.” She fails to meet the standards of “exemplary citizenship”
and she does not have what it takes to “inspire” graduating college seniors.

That crazy thinking comes
from the New Brunswick Faculty Council of Rutgers University. They voted last
week to ask university leadership to cancel Rice’s invitation to be this year’s
Commencement Speaker and receive an honorary degree.

There is an added element at
play here. There is a disgraceful double standard amongst liberals,
particularly those in academia, in the hatred they direct at black
conservatives.”

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Apparently the Rutgers
Faculty Council would rather have a nice Liberal Democrat like QueensCollege
had at their commencement.
6/2/06: NY Democrat: Shoot Pres. Bush between the eyes http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,197935,00.html
"NY Dem. Sen. Schumer is the man who would put a bullet between the
president’s eyes if he could get away with it."
This from NY State Comptroller Democrat Alan Hevesi, long term prior professor
of government and politics at QueensCollege, who made this statement to all assembled
while participating in the commencement address at QueensCollege!

I am a Rutgers
Graduate, BSME Class ’60.I wrote a three word email to my school: “Respect
Condi Rice”.I was very pleased and proud to receive
back the following:

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Dear Mr. Hagen,

Thank you for sharing your
input regarding Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s delivery of the 2014
Rutgers University–New Brunswick commencement address. The opinions of our
alumni are important to us, and we appreciate your taking the time to write to
us and express your thoughts.

In response to your email,
I’d like to share the following message that President Barchi has issued
regarding the 2014 commencement speaker.

Best,

Ayesha Gougouehi

Communications Assistant

Rutgers, The StateUniversity
of New Jersey

New Brunswick, New Jersey08901

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Dear Members of the Rutgers
Community,

On May 18, we will welcome former
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to deliver the 2014 Rutgers University–New Brunswick commencement
address. In recent weeks, members of our University community have engaged
in spirited discussions, and faculty, staff, students, alumni, and a range of
individuals from across the nation have written both in strong support of, and
in opposition to, Condoleezza Rice as our commencement speaker. We have even
heard from high school students who have written to say that they would
withdraw their Rutgers applications if we
rescind—or fail to rescind—our invitation to her. These are the kinds of
exchanges that every great university welcomes. Like all vibrant intellectual
communities, Rutgers can thrive only when it
vigorously defends the free exchange of ideas in an environment of civil
discourse. Our students—like all members of our University community—benefit
from these kinds of energetic civic exchanges, and through them learn to
develop, articulate, and defend their own values and their moral and ethical
positions.

Whatever your personal feelings or political views about our commencement
speaker, there can be no doubt that Condoleezza Rice is one of the most
influential intellectual and political figures of the last 50 years. She has
been on the Stanford faculty as a professor of Political Science since 1981,
and she has won two of the university’s highest teaching distinctions. From
1993 to 1999, she served as Stanford’s Provost, the institution’s chief
academic officer. In 2001, she accepted the offer to serve in Washington, D.C.
as National Security Advisor and later United States Secretary of State, the
first woman of color to serve in that role. In March 2009, Dr. Rice returned to
StanfordUniversity as a professor of political
economy in the Graduate School of Business and in political science and as the
Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover
Institution. Dr. Rice’s success and influence is all the more impressive when
considered in the context of her childhood in the segregated South, during the
most tumultuous and violent years of the Civil Rights struggle.

As many of you have suggested in your letters and in discussions with me, we
live in a time when politics can be deeply polarizing. Like our fellow
citizens, you and I—our colleagues—have deep and sincerely held beliefs and
convictions that often stand in stark contrast to others around us. Yet, we
cannot protect free speech or academic freedom by denying others the right to
an opposing view, or by excluding those with whom we may disagree. Free speech
and academic freedom cannot be determined by any group. They cannot insist on
consensus or popularity. These principles are, in fact, best illustrated and
preserved when we defend perspectives that we oppose or when we protect what
may appear to be a minority view.

My hope is that we can use these seemingly controversial moments to reaffirm
our commitment to open and civil discourse. Indeed, they provide strong
evidence of a healthy and engaged University community. I will continue to work
with you to guarantee the University remains a space where ideas can be
considered, discussed, and debated, a space that embraces and defends civil
discourse, free speech, and academic freedom.

Saturday, March 08, 2014

Building ObamaCare

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--And to think it was Obama that ridiculed American Businesspeople with his:"You didn't build that" condescending arrogance at Fire House #1 right here in Roanoke VA!-View his denigrating speech:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKjPI6no5ng-

Perhaps they can use the
Rappers Dictionary with questions like: is mother a complete word or a
half-word?Perhaps the “rapmetrics”
website will be helpful?http://www.rapmetrics.com/

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With Obama and Holder
leading the class and race war in this country it should not be surprising that
this nasty divisiveness-jihad would trickle-down into every aspect of our society.Just more Hope and Change We Can Believe In!